Daily Archives: May 5, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster was awarded a star on Hollywood Boulevard s Walk of Fame on Wednesday — and revealed she was banned from the glitzy thoroughfare as a child. The veteran actress was presented with the 2,580th star on the walk by longtime friend Kristen ...

KARACHI: Azhar Ali and his men now have a daunting task to retain their ODI ranking in the top eight after being pushed out of the elite club following annual update since only the top eight sides on Sept 30, 2017 will qualify directly for the game’s biggest event — ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would upgrade its ties with the 28-member Nato military alliance by opening a permanent mission to its Brussels headquarters. “Israel will accept the invitation and open an office, in the near future,” Netanyahu said at the start of ...

A “historic” housing crisis in Los Angeles County has led to a spike in the number of homeless people in America’s largest county by population. LA County homelessness jumped by nearly six percent over the past year to 46,874, authorities said on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) ...

US President Barack Obama warns Flint parents to have their children medically examined for lead poisoning over a massive water crisis in the Michigan city. that poisonous lead pipes may take two years to replace during a visit to crisis-hit Flint, Michigan. Obama, who sipped the filtered water from Flint ...

The Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) group has the capacity of targeting the United States with attacks similar to those of Paris and Brussels, says the US intelligence chief. “They do have that capacity. That’s something we worry about a lot in the United States, that they could conjure up a raid like ...

The British government has been criticized for a recent “discriminatory” bill that would make people show proof of their nationality or face prosecution. The government is proposing the bill to provide police and immigration officers across the UK with an authority to order arrested people to prove their nationality and the foreign nationals to ...

A state of emergency has been declared in Canada’sMcMurray as a raging wildfire burned dozens of more buildings and forced the evacuation of the main oil sands city. The Canadian province of Alberta officially announced the emergency state late on Wednesday after the blaze destroyed at least 1,600 buildings, mostly homes, and ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has ordered an investigation into the alleged use of foreign mercenaries by the country’s opposition leader and potential presidential candidate Moise Katumbi. “I just gave the instruction to the general prosecutor of the republic to open a judicial case against the former governor of the ...

A Bahraini court has revoked the citizenship of an opposition leader over his comments deemed derogatory to Saudi Arabia’s monarch King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Bahrain’s high criminal court ruled on Wednesday that the defendant, identified as Ebrahim Karimi, be stripped of his citizenship, Bahrain Mirror reported. It sentenced ...